TikTok reaches deal with Oracle, rejects Microsoft as White House deadline looms

TikTok has reached an agreement to partner with software giant Oracle, a landmark deal that could redefine how the U.S. and China square off over the reach of their homegrown technology companies.

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And the CEO of Oracle is as it happens the most modest, amiable, condescending (in the original 18th Century sense) and charitable fellow in all of Silicon Valley. Everybody just loves him, especially his employees and fellow yachtsmen and women. I crack myself up.